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Bring to boil, remove from heat and poir over meat and onion mixture in casserole dish.
Hazy Sunday Afternoon Kirsty 2007
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Chocolate Gel Pear Sorbet, Mushroom Caramel, Brown Butter: dry/crisp textures of earthy dehydrated mushrooms dotted with caramel, ribbons of gelled fudge, pear nectar encapsulated in lecithin or agar, and a poir William sorbet, as well as white foams and clear gels tasting of minty pine.
Augieland: 2006
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Chocolate Gel Pear Sorbet, Mushroom Caramel, Brown Butter: dry/crisp textures of earthy dehydrated mushrooms dotted with caramel, ribbons of gelled fudge, pear nectar encapsulated in lecithin or agar, and a poir William sorbet, as well as white foams and clear gels tasting of minty pine.
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Je suis ici poir rencontrer des gens, leur jaser et voir ce qui arrivera.
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At Ibme feafons of the ycjr, it is children as apprentices, and diflribotes formed into an entire mal's of fine white moocy, cloihes, and books ta poir per*
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There was in his look and gefhire fomething that is more eafily conceived than defcribed; that gained «poir you in his favour, before he - f pake one word.
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But aipong none fo much as thofe poir jTeffed of a deep ftrong clay foil.
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• to perform; and here icveral ubiUulc poir. tj* Ull under examination.
The Monthly Review 1772
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Owing to the f. arci ty of pod horfes, a proceflion, rather ludi - crous, prefentcd itfelf to the \ eop«y of Marlborough, laft week; where fome gentlemen, impatient of delay, made their enue in a poir-chaiib drawn by oxen, on a foil "ot, and driven by the owner, by whoi»
Sporting Magazine 1796
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